Who Should I Buy My Hosting From?
Like purchasing many business services, you will want to buy something reliable but not pay too much for it.
One route is to go to a big company. You may feel as they have been around a long time and they may continue to be. You may also feel a large company are bound to have enough staff to be able to answer all your questions and meet your needs. This may well be true. However bare in mind big does not always equate to stable in the Internet business world, and from our experience big companies are not always the most helpful. After all you are only customers 10,005 to them.
If you are looking for an alternative to the big companies there are plenty to choose from. Take a look at their websites, see where they host their servers, is it a major data centre? Do the have lots of different connections in case one fails? Do they have a backup power supply? Possibly most importantly can you actually speak to someone when everything goes wrong? Failing everything else you could always ask who other people are using, and what sort of service they have had.